This story covers four stages in the life of Australian Holden Shadbolt who moves from Adelaide to Sydney. He develops a reputation for silence and reliability and for an amazing photographic memory, making him useful to those in power and to those who appear to need protection. Murray Bail's first novel "Homesickness" won the 1980 Age Book of the Year Award.
- ISBN10 1466801085
- ISBN13 9781466801080
- Publish Date 1 May 2002 (first published 14 September 1987)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 August 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Picador USA
- Format eBook (OEB)
- Pages 384
- Language English